Mary MAPES Gets "High Six Figures" Book Deal -- WooHOOOO!

[UTUSN]

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http://newyorkbusiness.com/news.cms?id=10231

Mary Mapes signs book deal
by Matthew Flamm

Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer fired over "Memogate," has reached a deal to tell her side of the controversial story that effectively ended the career of Dan Rather and sent morale into a tailspin at the venerable news organization.

St. Martin's Press has agreed to pay in the high six figures to publish a book by Ms. Mapes tentatively titled The Other Side of the Story. According to publishing executives who met with the news producer last week, the book is still in the early stages, but will focus on the 60 Minutes Wednesday report that filled in the missing details--and painted a highly unflattering picture--of President George W. Bush's Air National Guard service. The story was discredited when memos at the heart of the reporting could not be authenticated.

Ms. Mapes continues to insist that the story was accurate, and that the documents were not forged. The book will present a detailed counterattack against an independent panel's findings that the segment should not have aired, and will include documentation and analysis that she says backs up her reporting and which the panel did not release.

A division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, St. Martin's pre-empted the book, jumping ahead of approximately half a dozen publishers who were considering the proposal. A spokesperson for St. Martin's could not be reached.

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[Touchdown]

1. Took me awhile to find this post.

Kicking because there's always been something smelly about this whole 60 Minutes memo thing, and I want to read it.

[Octafish]

2. Thanks, UTUSN! Mapes took the fall...

... for CBS, which only had the audacity to tell the truth about the cowardly coke-snorting drunk, the moron George W Bush.



CBS had so much stuff on the Little Turd from Crawford, they couldn't fit it into a week's work of 60 Minutes. Remember Ben Barnes, the former Texas Speaker of the House and Lt. Govenor, was on record as having helped Bush jump to the top of the TANG waiting list -- meaning several people went to Vietnam and died in Smirk's place. THAT all fell off Corporate McPravda's radar once Dan Rather opened his pie hole about the memo -- which the secretary didn't remember writing, but knew its contents was what the base commander thought: Bush was the spoiled brat protected by a CIA daddy -- and that was before Poppy was DCI.

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[UTUSN]

3. Hey, Oct!!! Someday You, Me, blm and Other DUers WILL BE TOGETHER

[Octafish]

5. Hope it's not Gitmo, Brother UTUSN!

Unless of course we're on a WORKING vacation.

[BuyingThyme]

4. The record is clear.

People can attack CBS, but their error doesn't change the story at all.

[UTUSN]

6. Thank You. Fun in Gitmo. n/t

[Cleita]

7. Cheers for St. Martin's press.

Let's hope more of the literati start publishing some damning facts.

[UTUSN]

8. You're a Prime Candidate for Gitmo, Too n/t

[Cleita]

10. Nah, I think they are planning something up in the Aleutian

Islands. Close to the gulags ya know. * can get info from pooty-poot on how to do it right.

[candy331]

9. Sign me up for one copy and LORD PLEASE let it hit the bookstores

now while the repugs are being shown for what they truly are. AMEN!